Comments on: Red Sox activate Stephen Drew from concussion DLhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/04/10/red-sox-activate-stephen-drew-from-concussion-dl/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:23:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: dan1111http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/04/10/red-sox-activate-stephen-drew-from-concussion-dl/#comment-471734
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:35:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393632#comment-471734I agree with your larger point about sports writing, but cutting edge statistical analysis considers defense very important. Early sabermetrics may have de-emphasized the glove (certainly that was how Moneyball popularized it), but that has changed with advances in analysis of defense.
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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:31:53 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393632#comment-471652Good for Drew. I hate to see players in all sports who suffer from this type of problem.
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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:29:39 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=393632#comment-471650The Boston scribes have been shamelessly thumping for Iglesias, and saying really dumb things in the process, like “If you need offense from your shortstop, your offense isn’t good enough anyway.” There is no indication as all that Iglesias is anything but a 21st century Dal Maxville, and it’s amazing that in the statistical age supposed pros would still write that a good glove can more than compensate for sub-sub-par offense.

Boston’s baseball sportswriting used to be astute and mean; now it’s ignorant and mean.